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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middlebury is not much easier to get into than Bowdoin. The stats of their incoming classes are quite similar, with the slight edge to Bowdoin. Midd has a higher acceptance rate because they have an additional 200 seats to fill per class.

Because Midd fills such a large percentage of their class in the ED rounds, I'd say in RD, Middlebury is the tougher admit.  [/quote]

This is really misleading. Bowdoin is as hard to get into now as Swarthmore or Pomona. Middlebury admits more than 70% of their class ED, and the ED acceptance rate is more than 30%. Bowdoin admits a little more than 50% of their class ED, and the ED acceptance rate is about 17%. RD acceptance rates between the schools show similar differences. Also, Bowdoin has no “February admit” yield management shenanigans to muddle the statistics. As for the test scores, only 28% of Middlebury matriculants submitted SAT scores, while 37% of Bowdoin matriculants did, with a similar disparity for ACT submitters.

All this info is available in the CDS; if you care about these differences look them up there and don’t take what people blithely opine on DCUM seriously.
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